What is it about?
The article explores participation in rock music festivals, on basis of detailed analysis of transitions between different phases of the festival day.
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Why is it important?
The article uses the case of music festivals to explore how social interaction converges to certain communal processes with structural characteristics. It is as such a study of how communities and societies evolve in a broader sense.
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I have written this article on basis of being a rock music festival enthusiast. As a sociologist I was struck about the similarities between festivals and that particular observation motivated a closer exploration of social processes within festivals. The article is a major contribution to a continued interest on the relation between societal development and social interaction.
Professor Aksel Tjora
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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This page is a summary of: The social rhythm of the rock music festival, Popular Music, November 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s026114301500080x.
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